Add to ORKGMather (2019) provides an excellent overview of the literature on octopus perception, cognition, memory, and behavior. Anyone interested in cephalopod cognition and brain organization will find her target article informative and interesting. In this commentary, I challenge the idea that an individual organism must have an individual mind. Given the structure of the octopus brain and their complex behavior, one must consider the possibility that an octopus is a community of minds rather than a single mind
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Mather’s (2019) provocative claim that octopuses have a mind hinges on the inference that their stri...
Mather argues convincingly for the existence of minds in octopuses based largely on laboratory exper...
Mather (2019) provides an excellent overview of the literature on octopus perception, cognition, mem...
Mather consolidates the case for octopus mind and how it may be structured, shifting the starting po...
It is gratifying to see the thorough discussion of whether octopuses have a mind, though perhaps a m...
It is difficult to imagine what an animal as different from us as the octopus ‘thinks’, but we can m...
Octopuses challenge many common assumptions and received views about the relationship between the ne...
Mather’s target article aligns with a common tendency of granting the octopus a mind or consciousnes...
Even if its intelligent behaviors are the product of decentralized control systems, Mather argues th...
Mather’s work has been fundamental in informing scientists of the relatively mysterious behavior and...
Birch et al. suggest that consciousness in any animal group must involve four aspects—perceptual ric...
Scientific discussions about the ‘mind’ of an octopus are empirically vacuous and should be confined...
Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that o...
Despite the reputation of octopuses as intelligent animals, their cognitive abilities seem to be mos...
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Mather’s (2019) provocative claim that octopuses have a mind hinges on the inference that their stri...
Mather argues convincingly for the existence of minds in octopuses based largely on laboratory exper...
Mather (2019) provides an excellent overview of the literature on octopus perception, cognition, mem...
Mather consolidates the case for octopus mind and how it may be structured, shifting the starting po...
It is gratifying to see the thorough discussion of whether octopuses have a mind, though perhaps a m...
It is difficult to imagine what an animal as different from us as the octopus ‘thinks’, but we can m...
Octopuses challenge many common assumptions and received views about the relationship between the ne...
Mather’s target article aligns with a common tendency of granting the octopus a mind or consciousnes...
Even if its intelligent behaviors are the product of decentralized control systems, Mather argues th...
Mather’s work has been fundamental in informing scientists of the relatively mysterious behavior and...
Birch et al. suggest that consciousness in any animal group must involve four aspects—perceptual ric...
Scientific discussions about the ‘mind’ of an octopus are empirically vacuous and should be confined...
Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that o...
Despite the reputation of octopuses as intelligent animals, their cognitive abilities seem to be mos...
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Mather’s (2019) provocative claim that octopuses have a mind hinges on the inference that their stri...
Mather argues convincingly for the existence of minds in octopuses based largely on laboratory exper...